Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1887-07-29
VIRGINIA NOTES.

Dysentery of an alarming char.
acter is reported to be prevailing
in portions OF Spottsylyania cOun.
ty. 1t is principally confined to
children, several Of whom have
died.
Grape rot is reported as prevail.
ing all through the Piedmont sec.
ton, and that the crop is virtually
destroyed. This is a disaster, as
grape culture has become an i'm.
pOrtant industry there, and the
loss will be heavy.
Mrs. Don p. Halsey, of Lynch.
burg, was elected lady superlnten-
dent of the State Normal School
at Farmville by the board of trus-
tees at their late meeting in Rich.
mOnd. Mrs. Halsey is sister of
United States Senator Daniel.
The Roanoke Machine Works,
at Roanoke, are in receipt Of an
order, with specifications, from the
Norfolk and Western Railroad
Company for fifteen new locomotive
engines and five hundred cars,
most of them for the Clinch Valley
extension.
The Norfolk Ne'cs notices as an
evidence Of the advantages of the
uniform gauge now maintained by
all the railroads the presence on
the Norfolk and Western track at
the Boston wharf, in that city, of a
loaded freight car Of the "Frisco
line" from st. Louis to San Fran
cisco.
Peter Slaughter, cOiored, was
convicted of murder of Alfred Lee,
a fellOw.labOrer, in the county
court of Culpeper, last Saturday,
and sentenced to be hung on the
Both of next September. Slaughter
claimed that Lee had conjured him,
and that ne had TO kill him 10
break the spell.
Sergeant Mason. made famous
for having shot at Guiteau during
bis trial for the murder of Presi-
dent Garfield, has become a pros.
porous and very quiet farmer in
Orange county. lie, with Betty
and several babies, are reported to
be perfectly comfortable in all re.
spects.
Reuben Coleman, cOlored, who
committed a criminal assault on
Mrs. Savage in Surry county, while
she was picking berries near her
home. was taken from Jail By
mob, bat was rescued by a sheriff7s
posse and returned to prison. At
last accounts Mrs. Savage was in
dying condition.
Holmes II. Puryear, who is to be
hanged at Prince George Court
House on the 10Th of August next,
for the murder of his wife, is now
reading his Bible daily and max
ing preparation for the awful doom
that awaits him. He says that he
will make a statement from the
gallows, in which he will proclaim
to the world that he is an innocent
man.
Correspondents OF the Lynch
burg AdrdRce in Bedford, Bote-
tourt, Rockbridge and Franklin,
represent that the crops in these
counties we're never better. Corn
and tobacco on low grounds haye
been injured by high water. but the
general situation is much more
favorable than last year, though in
isolated nelghborhoods the fruit
crop is far below the average.
The Frederick county democratic
convention sent a representative
delegation to Roanoke. 1t also in
structed its delegates to the sena-
tOrlal convention to vote for Thos.
w. Harrison its candidate for
State Senator from this district
This assures his nomination. Mr..
Harrison is a prominent lawyer
Of Winchester, and married a sister
of Mr.. VIM. VI. Knight, deputy
collector of customs at Baltimore.
NORFOLK, VA, July 25.-In Nall
semOnd county, seven miles from
Suffolk, yesterday morning, john
Saunders, cOIored, aged eigh teen,
shot and instantly killed his sister,
aged fifteen, while their parents
were at church. After putting her
body on bed the young murderer
took to the woods, and has not
since been seen.
RICHMOND, VA, July 2G--lncom
phance with the resolution adopted |
by the city Democratic committee |
requesting him to do so, Mr.. Lewis |
II. Blair to-day rendered his resig-
nation as treasurer and member Of
that committee. Mr.. Blairs arti-
cles in the New York Independent
advocating mixed schools, and in
that the Democrats had
suppressed the negro vote in the
South has attracted considerable
attention here.